Chapter 190

• She stood up and put a finger on his lips and then kissed him. "Then do so. This is going to happen one way or the other. I'm telling you this in order to prepare you for what's coming. So just trust me, and relax. Please." She finished oiling up his body in an uncomfortable silence.
• Aden still had his reservations about this. "Why does this... thing... have to use humans? Why can't it just find its own kind?" he asked her when she knelt at the end of the pier to gather up the four vine tentacles that had not been there before. It was almost like they'd come up and were waiting for them.
• "You know the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?"